In other words, there might be a connection for men, too. What about guys? According to the press release, men had a more “complicated pattern.” For them, there is “no direct relationship between finger length and sexual orientation.” (Isn’t that just what a guy named “Breedlove” would say? Let’s see your fingers, pal.) But “some gay men did appear, based on their finger lengths, to have been exposed to greater than normal levels of fetal androgens before birth,” the press release continues. It’s also true, apparently, that a fair number of heterosexual women have the same configuration the Inquirer piece has evolutionary biologist Robert Trivers of Rutgers, who has performed similar research, saying he found substantial overlap between gay and straight women on relative finger size. According to Breedlove, though, homosexual women tend, as men do, to have index fingers that are much shorter than their ring fingers. It’s just that in women, the difference is usually less pronounced. In fact, almost everybody, male and female, has a ring finger that’s longer than their index finger. Our first order of business is to dismiss the AP’s simplistic assertion that women’s index and ring fingers “tend to be about the same length” and, if they’re not, it could be a sign that the woman is gay. ET on March 30, Nature hadn’t yet posted the study on its Web site, but this Berkeley press release provides a bit more detail. Chatterbox and the Chatterkinder, however, Chatterbox thought it advisable to get a bit more information.